Chidi Njokuani knows he has all the skills to hang in the UFC and all that is left to prove it.
Njokuani signed to Bellator in 2015 and went 5-3 and has notable wins over Melvin Guillard and Ricky Rainey. His losses, meanwhile, were to the best of the best in Andrey Koreshkov, John Salter, and Rafael Carvalho. The 32-year-old also beat Max Griffin on the regional scene in 2015 and now he will get a shot to enter the UFC.
Njokuani is set to fight Mario Sousa on Week 2 of the Contender Series on September 7. For Njokuani, he says he doesn’t care he has to fight on DWCS despite the experience. For him, all he plans to do is to make a run in the UFC.
Njokuani is set to fight Mario Sousa on Week 2 of the Contender Series on September 7. For Njokuani, he says he doesn’t care he has to fight on DWCS despite the experience. For him, all he plans to do is to make a run in the UFC.
The official weigh-ins for UFC Vegas 35 took place on Friday in Las Vegas, and 23 of the 24 fighters scheduled to compete made weight.
The main event of UFC Vegas 34 features top-10 ranked middleweights Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum going at it for five rounds or less. Cannonier successfully weighed in on his first attempt on the scale, coming in at 185lbs. Gastelum, meanwhile, had an early scale scare as he weighed in at 186.25lbs on his first attempt on the scale. However, he was able to make it to 186lbs on his second attempt and the main event is still on.The lone weight miss on the card came in the bantamweight bout between Trevin Jones and Saidyokub Kakhramonov. Jones, who has had difficulty getting an opponent to show up in the last month, came in at 135lbs but Kakhramonov missed weight at 138.5lbs. To be fair to him, he took the fight on less than a week’s notice, but still, he was obligated to make weight and missed it. Because of the weight miss, he was fined 20% of his purse.
Check out the official UFC Vegas 34 weigh-in results below (via UFC).
UFC Vegas 34 Main Card (ESPN/ESPN+, 10 pm ET)
Middleweight Bout: Jared Cannonier (185) vs Kelvin Gastelum (186)
Lightweight Bout: Clay Guida (155) vs Mark O. Madsen (156)
Heavyweight Bout: Parker Porter (262) vs Chase Sherman (256)
Bantamweight Bout: Trevin Jones (135) vs Saidyokub Kakhramonov (138.5)*
Lightweight Bout: Vinc Pichel (155.5) vs Austin Hubbard (156)
Flyweight Bout: Alexandre Pantoja (126) vs Brandon Royval (125.5)
UFC Vegas 34 Preliminary Card (ESPN2/ESPN+, 7 pm ET)
Featherweight Bout: Austin Lingo (145.5) vs Luis Saldana (146)
Bantamweight Bout: Brian Kelleher (136) vs Domingo Pilarte (136)
Women’s Bantamweight Bout: Bea Malecki (135) vs Josiane Nunes (136)
Light Heavyweight Bout: William Knight (206) vs Fabio Cherant (205)
Lightweight Bout: Roosevelt Roberts (154.5) vs Ignacio Bahamondes (154)
Welterweight Bout: Sasha Palatnikov (170) vs Ramiz Brahimaj (171)
*Saidyokub Kakhramonov missed weight, coming in at 138.5lbs for his bantamweight bout against Trevin Jones. The fight will go on with Kakhramonov being fined 20% of his purse.
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